West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee skipped the NITI Aayog meeting in New Delhi on Saturday, PTI reported. However, there was no official statement about who would represent West Bengal in the meeting in the absence of the chief minister, the sources told PTI. Chief Secretary Manoj Pant is likely to be present in the…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday lashed out at opposition AIADMK, calling it an âan old bonded slave campâ that has surrendered to the BJP. Reacting to the announcement of the AIADMK and the BJP, Stalin said that the state’s opposition party is being coerced by threats by the BJP to implement its…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday revealed the names of three candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra Legislative Council by-elections, after receiving approval from the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC). The selected candidates are Sandip Diwakarrao Joshi, Sanjay Kishanrao Kenekar, and Dadarao Yadavrao Keche. The by-polls are being held to fill vacant seats in the…
At its most basic, a tariff is a tax or duty on an imported good or service. It can be on a single product, a category of products or applied on all imports from a specific country. In the first weeks of the new Trump administration, all these forms have been announced. For instance, Trumpâs…
The Best Picture nominees at this yearâs Oscars include two movies whose main characters embody a political truth that escapes too many of Americaâs Republicans and Democrats. Unfortunately, only one of the films allows viewers to see it. In Conclave, a drama about the selection of a new pope, Cardinal Lawrence (played by Ralph Fiennes)…
Rekha Gupta oath-taking today: Delhi CM-designate Rekha Gupta’s son Nikunj was all praise for his mother when talking to media ahead of the oath-taking ceremony on February 20. âIt is good that a woman has been given the opportunity to be the CM. We are confident that she will be able to shoulder her responsibility…
AIUDF MLA Aminul Islam feels that the Telangana and Andhra Pradesh state government’s decisions to have shorter work days for Muslims during Ramzan is justified. Speaking to ANI in Guwahati, Islam said, âIt is justified because people fast the whole day…â He further added that the Assam government should ârethinkâ its 2024 rule abolishing the…
Telugu film actors K. Chiranjeevi, K Brahmanandam and others at the pre-release event of the movie Brahma Anandam held on Tuesday (February 11, 2025). | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Telugu film actor K. Chiranjeevi said that he will stay away from politics and stay close to cinema. The actor turned into a politician with the…
The fact is, India has never been easy to read. Itâs a continent-sized country of an amalgam of states, resulting in a smorgasbord of regions, cultures, religions, ethnicities, languages, food, clothing, lifestyles and political ideologies. Itâs a veritable explosion of diversity, gamely, and often unsuccessfully, sought to be held together by a unifying âIdea of…
The cabinet has approved a Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) that promises government employees 50% of their last salary as a retiral payout, among other benefits. The main operative feature is that it assures the benefits. This is unlike the existing National Pension System (NPS) in which the contribution is defined but the benefit varies. In…
